The Heat of the Day

Elizabeth Bowen

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English

Random House USA Inc
09 July 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.

Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the man who is following him wants Stella herself as the price of his silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how little we can truly know of those around us.

By: Elizabeth Bowen
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780385721288
ISBN 10: 0385721285
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 09 July 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. She wrote many acclaimed short stories and novels, including The Heat of the Day, The Death of the Heart, The Last September,and Eva Trout. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948. She died in 1973.

Reviews for The Heat of the Day

Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf. -- The Atlantic Monthly [Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent. --V. S. Pritchett Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts. --Time Miss Bowen [has] power to evoke, suggest and explore down oblique and little-frequented avenues the mysterious centers of human conduct. -- The New York Times